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The first of three reunion shows for “The Real Housewives of Orange County” took place on Bravo on Sunday, Nov. 25, 2018. Seen here, left to right, are Gina KIrschenheiter, Kelly Dodd, Tamra Judge, Shannon Beador, Vicki Gunvalson, and Emily Simpson. And sure, they’re all smiles now, but the gloves came off and the tears and insults flew before long. (Photo by Trae Patton/Bravo)

After 20 episodes of watching Housewife Shannon Beador on “The Real Housewives of Orange County” this season (and that last recap), I’m ready to tear off the microphone, steal her catchphrase – “I’m done!” – and storm off the set.

Because really, Shannon, it’s not all about you.

Not that Shannon, who made it all about her again on the second of three reunion shows on Bravo on Sunday, will ever see that. But I see you, Shannon, and I see you, too, Bravo czar and reunion host Andy Cohen, who repeatedly threw low-key shade at Shannon throughout this week’s episode.

So what did we learn about Shannon from the reunion? Her divorce is still not final despite announcing her separation on the 2017 reunion show. Ex-husband David Beador has moved in with his new lady whom Shannon’s three daughters with David tell her they like.

“There’s a rumor out there,” Shannon replied with enough frostiness to keep those frozen meals she’s hawking on QVC from defrosting anytime before the end of the year. She then adds that what really bothers her is that David and Fresh Squeeze are living together “in a very affluent gated community in a six-bedroom home.”

How’s someone with a 4,000-square-foot rental supposed to feel about that, huh?!

Andy probes more, asking Shannon her most embarrassing moment on the boozy weekend she spent with Housewives Tamra Judge and Vicki Gunvalson in Mexico during the season. Shannon tells him it happened on the night they each threw back 15 tequila shots and then – well, apparently she thinks it’s Bravo’s fault, not hers.

“The day after we went out with the 15 tequila shots someone in production said, ‘That taco stand was fun,’” Shannon says. “I go, ‘I didn’t go to a taco stand.’ He goes, ‘Yeah, you did.’

“I thought, ‘Well, they’re not going to show that.’ Well, thank you. Thank you for showing that. Because it was embarrassing.”

“We shouldn’t show it if you don’t remember it?” Andy asks, rhetorically, because you know that if a housewife gets sloppy drunk, and in the case of Shannon mistakes a Mexican street chihuahua for her golden retriever Archie, that stuff is going in the show.

Housewives Gina Kirschenheiter and Emily Simpson then join the conversation about what Shannon said about Emily’s husband Shane. This argument wasn’t that interesting when it happened during the season so there’s no need to rehash it here in any detail.

“I’ve been seeing a therapist for the last two years and one of the things I’m working on is learning to be less reactive,” Shannon says.

“How’s that going?” Andy says, and if he’s literally drop the mic on the floor before the end of this episode I’m going to be disappointed.

Finally, we segue to other someone else, initially Emily, whom Andy and the other housewives all express incredulity over the fact that she married Shane without taking him for a test drive.

“Would any of you guys get married with out testing the goods?” Andy asks the others.

“Hell no!” Housewife Kelly Dodd replies, and the rest all express some version of that.

“Dude, if he had like a little Vienna sausage?” says Kelly, changing the subject for some reason to mid-century cocktail party appetizers. “I’d be like, ‘No way!’”

Emily, who sincerely seems like the most normal housewife on the show, gets a question from Andy about the online body shaming she received on her first season on the series, which produces one of the few truly touching moments of the episode.

“That was hard,” she says. “I never looked at myself and thought I was fat. I always knew that I was a bigger girl. But I never looked at myself and thought, “Oh, you’re disgusting.’

“It was women,” she said of the online abuse she received. “They would send me direct messages and call me a fat ass, disgusting, I needed to lose weight, I’m not healthy, how can I go out like that, It was horrible.”

“I think you look great in a bathing suit,” Kelly offered kindly.

“Thank you,” Emily said through the tears that had now come. “I feel like I got a little redemption in Jamaica.

“It made me want to fight back in a positive way,” she added. “We don’t all have to be the same size to be beautiful or sexy. All women deserve to feel like that.”

Housewife Tamra Judge finally got in on the action at the end of the show when we learn that she had not invited Shannon, her longtime bestie, to her birthday party in September because Shannon was pouting again about something that had hurt her feelings. Of course, she was.

“You and your mother were talking about that I got the water turned off,” Shannon said of the scene on the series that had made her stop talking to Tamra and thus miss out on the party. “In any apartment, I’ve ever lived in I didn’t have to pay for water. It’s my mistake, I’m a dumb ass.”

Your words, Shannon, not mine, but … .

“I figured who you rent from, they paid for it,” Shannon said.

“We thought it was funny!” Tamra said, exasperated once again with her friend.

Then this devolves into more recriminations, about a trip to New York City, about Tamra bringing along her makeup artist as a treat for her and Shannon treating Melissa Makeup like a servant, and also making them late for dinner, about – well, it doesn’t really matter because Shannon blows her top about now.

“Mission accomplished, you are going to make me out to be the worst!” she says.

“This is why I can’t tell you anything!” Tamra shouts back at her. “You play victim a lot.”

“Wow,” Shannon says.

“Your two favorite words are, me and I,” Tamra continues.

“OK,” Shannon says as she starts to disappear into the well of self-pity that makes Tamra so furious.

Peter Larsen has been the Pop Culture Reporter for the Orange County Register since 2004, finally achieving the neat trick of getting paid to report and write about the stuff he's obsessed about pretty much all his life. He regularly covers the Oscars and the Emmys, goes to Comic-Con and Coachella, reviews pop music, and conducts interviews with authors and actors, musicians and directors, a little of this and a whole lot of that. He grew up, in order, in California, Arkansas, Kentucky and Oregon. Graduated from Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Ore. with degrees in English and Communications. Earned a master's degree at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. Earned his first newspaper paycheck at the Belleville (Ill.) News-Democrat, fled the Midwest for Los Angeles Daily News and finally ended up at the Orange County Register. He's taught one or two classes a semester in the journalism and mass communications department at Cal State Long Beach since 2006. Somehow managed to get a lovely lady to marry him, and with her have two daughters. And a dog named Buddy. Never forget the dog.